On Nov 10, 2014 11:34 AM, "Michael Biebl" <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Am 10.11.2014 um 17:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek:
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
> >> You can use pre-seeding and run
> >>
> >> preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core"
> >>
> >> in the debian-installer. While that does indeed first install
> >> systemd-sysv, it's directly replaced again during system installation
> >> and doesn't require you to boot with systemd as PID 1.
> >> So it might be pretty close to what you're looking for.
> >
> >
> > Thanks. But wouldn't it be nice if as an option, you could just pick
> > which init you wanted in the installer. It would make things so much
> > easier. Too late to implement this, I suppose. Maybe, in the next
> > release?
>
> Most users simply don't care and don't want to be bothered with this.
> It's not like we prompt the user whether he wants to use grub or isolinux.
> If we added an explicit switch, this would have to be in
> expert-install-mode only imo. I can't speak for the d-i people, but
> since we entered freeze, I guess it's likely to late to add that for jessie.
> Especially, as already mentioned, you do already have a mechanism via
> preseed/late_command.
>
Not sure whether this was deb or slack, but I do remember a prompt of grub vs lilo for a while (also the choice of password hash was there for a while too). Ie, it wouldn't be precedented.